I have never read a book that immersed me into another culture the way this book did. Nor have I read a book that comes with a map, a recipe, and a discussion guide. For someone like me who is generally anxious about traveling and taking risks, this book makes you want to hop the next plane to Paris.
'No one writes about food like Ruth Reichl... I consider her essential nourishment.' NIGELLA LAWSON
Ripping open the envelope, she read Celia's last words to her. There was just one line written on the paper: 'Go to Paris.'
The last word anyone would use to describe Stella St. Vincent is adventurous. She's perfectly comfortable with the familiar, strict routines of her life as a copyeditor in New York. Or at least, she is until she receives a mysterious note from her late mother and a one-way plane ticket to Paris.
Alone and overwhelmed in a foreign city, Stella avoids new…
I loved learning about a time in history, post WWI, when women had stepped up to keep things running at home, only to have to give up control when the menfolk returned home. This book transported me in time, plus I loved the romantic thread because I'm a sucker for romance.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Historical fiction of the highest order . . . an absolute joy of a book, warm and romantic, and with so much to say about the lives of women in the years following World War I.”—Ann Napolitano, bestselling author of Hello Beautiful
A timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside—about a generation of young women facing the seismic changes brought on by war and dreaming of the boundless possibilities of their future, from the bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
This book amazed me. As a writer of Christian Romantic Suspense, I've always thought I understood what it means to live by faith but Corrie Ten Boom and her sisters went to a concentration camp for helping Jews during WWII, then after the war, Corrie opened a mental health retreat for EVERYONE, including former Nazis and traitors. She and her sister set a high bar for any Christian to follow in their harrowing footsteps. Talk about inspirational!
It's World War II. Darkness has fallen over Europe as the Nazis spread hatred, fear and war across the globe. But on a quiet city corner in the Netherlands, one woman fights against the darkness.
In her quiet watchmaking shop, she and her family risk their lives to hide Jews, and others hunted by the Nazis, in a secret room, a "hiding place" that they built in the old building.
One day, however, Corrie and her family are betrayed. They're captured and sent to the notorious Nazi concentration camps to die. Yet even…
Rachel LeMere is certain she'll never love again. It's taken three years to move past the tragic death of her husband and high-school sweetheart, Blake. Rachel's adoptive brother, a military lawyer, has managed to gain shared custody of her twelve-year-old son, Liam. Forced to live with her brother and endure his cruelty, Rachel promises her son they will escape to freedom and a new life. If only she can convince Blake's best friend, Saul, to help them.
Legendary Navy SEAL Saul Wade is headed to Oklahoma to reclaim the ranch where he grew up. It's bad enough Saul has to face his tragic past. Honor also demands he risk his entire career by helping a woman he scarcely knows.
What begins as a debt to a friend sets Saul on a journey of forgiveness, healing, and love. But when evil threatens his and Rachel's burgeoning relationship, Saul is forced to make a life-changing decision—remain America's top sniper or allow God's grace to give him a whole new reason for living.
